gorged
Americanadjective
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January tends to come with a slowdown in spending after consumers have gorged on shopping for the holidays.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026
Instead, the American and British public gorged on the sensationalism because that was the supposedly “official” record.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2025
I immediately thought about the acrobatic squirrel that my Bird Buddy had captured — not infrequently — dangling from the roof of the feeder by its hind legs while it gorged itself on bird seed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2023
On a flat pitch under warm sun and against an inexperienced attack lacking any sort of cutting edge, England's batters gorged themselves.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2023
She found the remnants of a farm and gorged herself on bananas gone wild.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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